Even then, I feel like it takes way less time and effort to learn to crochet than to code.

I mean if you don’t you’re not really getting your money’s worth.

$8 for a hot dog isn’t terrible if it’s like a cool fancy “hot dog”, like a footlong kielbasa with a seeded bun loaded with neat toppings.

Probably not what they serve at the movie theater though.

I think she said Swiss in another post? There’s a lot of cultural cross-pollination

Is it gay if it’s cytokinesis?

“slight”

“Whilst you lack the strength to do away with bourgeois parliaments and every other type of reactionary institution, you must work within them because it is there that you will still find workers who are duped by the priests and stultified by the conditions of rural life; otherwise you risk turning into nothing but windbags.”

As much as I hate advertisements and avoid them as much as possible, watching the evolution is somewhat fascinating in an anthropological sense. It’s like an arms race between companies and consumers, accelerated by consumer adaptation to previous ad strategies.

You’ve got the old days, when ads mostly seemed to be about describing the features of products in a relatively factual manner.

Then when most products have the same basic features you start focusing on single metric comparisons to competitors.

Then when all the competitors are finding metrics where they’re the best you start leaning into mascots and brand loyalty and slogans.

Then when everyone has branding and mascots you focus on how all the Cool People prefer your brand because it makes them Cool and Sexy

Then when everyone assumes the content of ads can’t really be trusted as a useful metric you enter the fever-dream era where you shift to memorable skits about the product.

Then when everyone gets used to memorable depictions of your product you enter the surrealist fever-dream era where the skits aren’t even really about the product anymore.

Now it seems like we’re in the brainrot “flash your logo in the midst of visual overstimulation” era, but that’s about where I only see ads by accident anymore.

I’d love to hear about how advertisements have evolved in recent years if anyone can fill me in, but not enough to watch them

Starting a revolution is going to be 95% building support networks and logistics

Start conversation groups with like-minded individuals. Encourage them to start conversation groups with like-minded individuals. Network.

Capitalism excels at breeding innovation. Not in like, useful technology or anything, but in constructing labyrinthine bureaucratic structures to bypass regulations.

The mistakes of others do not magically make your alternative successful just because it’s different. Success isn’t a feeling of moral superiority, it’s improvements in material conditions. I see no improvement in material conditions.

You can’t claim horoscopes are successful because you think prayer doesn’t work. You need actual measurable results.

This is succeeding? I’d hate to see what failure looks like.

So to recap: the revolutionary approach isn’t succeeding because it’s under attack by liberals, except the liberal attacks are ineffective as evidenced by an 18% approval rating (nevermind that polling actually shows 34%). Not sure how low approval ratings for liberals is evidence for the efficacy of revolutionaries. Also lowering approval for liberals only empowers the more virulently fascist conservatives.

How, pray tell, does any of that demonstrate the strength of revolutionaries? None of that implies positive support for revolution, or organization necessary to implement that revolution, much less any likelihood of revolution securing the desired end goal.

This approach just seems like toothless reactionary bluster.

Shifting focus to avoid answering a question is the exact definition of deflection. Answer the question.

You misspelled liek

You can do whatever you want, I do.

The caveat is, actions have consequences, and a prudent person incorporates those consequences into their calculations of how much they want to do something. I want to drink beers all night, I don’t want to be hungover tomorrow, so my net desire is to just drink a few beers. I could drink more beers and incorporate hydration and aspirin into my evening plans, or I could drink all night anyway and deal with the consequences tomorrow.

Getting permits and doing things “the right way” is a strategy to mitigate the consequences you face for your actions. There are alternative strategies, but if you do nothing to mitigate your consequences, you may be unhappy with the result.

So do what you want, but take precautions or the consequences may outweigh the benefits.

There you have it indeed, any excuse to deflect and ignore the actual point. Alright champ, assume words mean whatever you think they mean and anyone left of Lenin is a fascist. If you can’t handle a segment, how on earth do you have the organization and numbers to overthrow the whole system?

Even if that were true it wouldn’t refute my point. If you can’t handle attacks from a segment, how are you going to overthrow the whole thing?

I think it’s useful as a starting point for a lot of things. I can ask AI a question about a topic I know nothing about, which will typically give me some context on the topic and the terminology to do further research.

Old? It’s only a couple years old.

-Checks - 2015

Ah.